Gordon Drummond

Gordon Drummond (27 September 1772-10 October 1854) was a general of Great Britain who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1813 to 1814 and became Governor-General of Canada in 1815, remaining governor until 1816. He fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, Egypt Campaign, and War of 1812.

Biography
Gordon Drummond was born in Quebec City in 1772, a Canadian by birth. He was of Scottish descent, his father from Perthshire. In 1780 his family moved to England and Drummond joined the army in 1789 at the age of seventeen. In 1794 he was sent to fight in the Netherlands during the French Revolutionary Wars and he later saw action in Egypt and the West Indies. After being assigned to Ulster, Drummond moved to Canada, where he was sent to replace Francis de Rottenburg as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1813. Unlike his predecessors De Rottenburg and Roger Hale Sheaffe, he returned to the strategies of General Isaac Brock, who had died at the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812. Drummond captured Fort Niagara from the United States and was constantly hungry for reinforcements from Governor George Prevost, and in the winter of 1813-14 drove all Americans out of Niagara. At the Battle of Chippewa in July 1814 he was defeated, and in the Battle of Lundy's Lane his army suffered heavy casualties (the Americans had to eventually withdraw due to short ammunition). Drummond himself was wounded, shot in the neck, but he survived. However, his final failure was the Siege of Fort Erie, which remained in American hands after a siege that cost Drummond 900 troops. Drummond was forced to sit back as the Duke of Wellington's veterans arrived in the Americas and launched an unsuccessful offensive in the north. Drummond helped to make peace at Ghent in late 1814 and continued serving Britain as Governor-General of Canada from 1815 to 1816. He died in obscurity in 1854, a forgotten war hero.